The Iran Hostage crisis which began during Jimmy Carter's presidency ended the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Pearl Harbor naval base was established, and Martin Luther King Day was declared a holiday in most states in This Day in History video.n November 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran.
Technically speaking, botanists classify the coconut as a drupe, not a nut. A drupe is a fleshy fruit enclosing a hard-shelled stone or seed and composed of an outer, middle, and inner layer. While a nut is a dry fruit consisting of a kernel or seed enclosed in a woody shell.
Some fruits and seeds that do not meet the botanical definition but are nuts in the culinary sense are: 1  Almonds are the edible seeds of drupe fruits â the leathery flesh is removed at harvest. 2  Brazil nut is the seed from a capsule. 3  Candlenut (used for oil) is a seed.  Cashew is the seed of an accessory fruit.